At the same time, its buyout proposal seems stalled. The company is working through a competing proposal from Carl Icahn. The committee running the auction is now asking Icahn for information, in a move...... (read more)

On Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before...... (read more)

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There are a lot of factors that go into determining whether a company does a good job at satisfying customers' expectations. It isn't enough nowadays to simply encourage consumers to buy or use a product...... (read more)

On Friday, shares of Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) rose 2.32%. When the closing bell rang, the stock price had climbed to $34.87 and set a new 52-week high. Since the beginning of 2013, shares have...... (read more)

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) founder Michael Dell, with help from private-equity firm Silver Lake Partners, hopes to take his company private by paying $13.65 in cash for each share of Dell stock. However,...... (read more)

Famed investor Carl Icahn and money manager Southeastern Asset Management have joined forces to provide shareholders an alternative to Michael Dell's controversial $24.4 billion bid to take the company...... (read more)

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Last November, I announced my intention to create a portfolio of 10 companies that investors had effectively thrown away and given up on, in the hope of showing that deep-value investing, and contrarian...... (read more)